The Overview Project. How the Tulsa World Used AP's Overview to Report on 8,000 Police Department Emails. In May, I published a story which described how the Tulsa Police Department in Oklahoma purchased millions of dollars of under-powered and under-tested computer hardware, resulting in a multitude of problems. Emails showed complaints from the field in which officers were unable to get basic police information about dangerous calls when they were en route to scenes, or network dead spots around town that officers were completely avoiding. But leading into April, I had no idea how I was going to read all these emails by myself. Three weeks away from receiving the documents, I called my city records official for an update and was told my request had expanded several times over.
I would be receiving about 8,000 emails from the city of Tulsa based on a server keyword search regarding a technology purchase for the city’s police department. Searching the Internet and IRE website for help on reviewing thousands of emails, I came across DocumentCloud and Overview. The next step the end game.